Silence entered the air after I stepped out of my apartment complex. Slamming the door hard‚ I walked out of the building and started strutting down the sidewalk into town. Several arguments left the air after I stepped out into the cold‚ frosty morning of November in Tulsa‚ Oklahoma. My parents have been arguing for months now‚ and I can’t take it. I mean‚ they’re good parents and have given me a nice place and all‚ but they always are getting drunk and argue all the time. I’ve tried to leave home
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A fail global warming experiment of the nations with the intention of controlling global warming kills off most life on the planet. Snowpiercer is the name of the very long train that travels around the globe via a continuing –motion engine‚ with the final survivors aboard divided by a class system‚ each car defined the class level of the passengers. With the elites in the front and the poor on the tail. Led by Curtis‚ a small group of the poorest class citizens living at the back of the train are
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class. We prepared to embark on an new reading assignment‚ The Outsiders‚ by S.E Hinton. I‚ myself cringed at the intention of yet again reading another thoughtless novel. Time went by and this book was dragging on. It was dull‚ tiresome‚ and I was utterly stumped as to what was happening in the book. At the same time I was just blasting through the entire experience‚ wanting it to be over with. Eventually‚ we were done with the book‚ and now it was time to watch the movie‚ which I was only enthusiastic
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‘The Outsiders’ is an often studied novel written by S.E. Hinton and follows the story of Ponyboy and his involvement in ‘Greaser’ gangs and gang violence with the ‘Socs’ groups‚ in small town America‚ in the 1950’s. The novel explores the concepts of gang membership and the need for many young people to belong to gangs or groups in order for them to feel accepted in society. Through the novel‚ Hinton strongly portrays the need for the young to be part of a gang to gain acceptance‚ security and a
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In The Outsiders‚ Ponyboy is the only character who changes In ‘The Outsiders’ Ponyboy has changed a lot after the events of what has happened ‘The Outsiders’ written by S.E. Hinton‚ Ponyboy’s personality has changed a lot‚ he wasn’t the only person who changed‚ Darry changed too. Darry’s personality also changed. Another main person who changed is Johnny‚ he changed emotionally and physically. There were physical changes and emotional changes. Ponyboy realises in the end people are just
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In the novel‚ The Outsiders‚ appearance is a very important theme to the book. One example of this in the book is when the Greasers thought that the Socs had everything going great because of what they owned. Some things that made the Greasers think this was the fact that the Socs had really nice cars and they had nice clothes. The Greasers didn’t know that the Socs had some of the same problems that they did and they went through hard times just like them. Another example of appearance being an
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John Green once said “Just remember that sometimes the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are.”They seem to be a different person on the outer side but they are completely different from within.The theme of Outsiders is that Don’t judge the book by it’s cover. To begin with‚we learn that many life-challenging events that occur in this story is that you should not judge people by their appearances.Cherry(Sherri) Valance‚the soc‚ says “We are so sophisticated-cool to the point
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A boy with no parents and in a bad neighborhood with bad influences as friends and is a minor that smokes and his older brother lets him do that and have those friends ‚ which also doesn’t give him a curfew and lets him go to places alone ‚ should be in the system. Ponyboy has an older brother Darry‚ but Darry doesn’t really take care of ponyboy like he should or gives him as much as attention as he should get for a teenager. Ponyboy should be in the system because he is a young boy that has bad
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Jaxi Woods-Smith Mrs. Brown English Period 1 September 26th‚ 2012 The Outsiders By S.E. Hinton “Dally risked his life for us‚ to keep Johnny out of trouble.” (Pg. 117.) This is a quote from S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders‚ a novel about two social groups‚ the Greasers and the Socs‚ and how the war between them cost three lives. The book is in the perspective of Ponyboy Curtis‚ a sensitive Greaser who is put in the middle of the social conflict when he friend Johnny kills a Soc in self-defense
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Angela Mohanty IRLA Ms.Scoopie January 11‚ 2013 Breaking A Label Ponyboy‚ a Greaser (hoody group)‚ from S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders once said: “That ’s why people don ’t ever think to blame the Socs and are always ready to jump on us. We look hoody and they look decent. It could be just the other way around - half of the hoods I know are pretty decent guys underneath all that grease‚ and from what I ’ve heard‚ a lot of Socs are just cold-blooded mean - but people usually go by looks” (141)
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